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- After feeling he has nothing left to live for on earth, a lonely geologist tries to qualify for a one-way mission to Mars with the help of an offbeat musician who is just as lost as he is.
- Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis wandering the streets of the city, until one day he auditions for a zombie film...
- Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.
- While transporting an important package, a young woman is involved in a car accident in the middle of nowhere leaving her trapped under the car. She slowly starts to realise that not only are some very bad men tracking her down wanting to retrieve the item she is transporting but something very dangerous is hunting her from deep within the woods.
- It's 2049 on a forsaken island off the coast of Toronto where the survival of the islanders depends on young Ti-Jeanne to risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a caribbean priestess and save her people.
- A volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.
- Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.
- An immortal, bigoted, unethical taxidermist is doing research on "Patient Zero", the gay flight attendant who allegedly was the first to bring AIDS to North America, for a museum show about contagious diseases, helped by the man's ghost.
- A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
- It's about a woman's pursuit to join her missing lover by crossing into a parallel dimension.
- An allegory - where the virtual has taken over the real and where physical bodies are not present.
- A young boy, ambivalent about sexuality and horrified by his two swinger parents, finds himself conflicted when he develops a crush on a much older sixteen-year-old neighbor.
- The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
- Maryse Holden, a professor, feminist activist spent the last months before her murder in Mexico on "a break from feminism" that became a sexually iconic story reflect in her posthumous book "Give Sorrow Words". The film portrays this period of her life bluntly and brilliantly by Jackie Burroughs.
- Five years ago, under the watchful eye of the great god Krishna, a plane of Indians returning to the homeland exploded in Canadian skies; a mortal named Krishna lost his family in that crash. In the present, this mortal Krishna is a former heroin addict with a nebulous past, and has returned to his mother's family: an aunt who married a sari dealer. He becomes involved in their lives, as they deal with their cultural identity with a fawning Canada eager to patronize their Indian subjects when convenient, but willing to be aggressive when they need to, as when Mr. Tikkoo wants to keep a rare stamp he found for his collection but which the Canadian authorities determine is of historical interest. In all of this, the mighty god Krishna moves, increasingly troubled by his lack of relevancy in this alien land.
- A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.
- A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
- Two junkies lock themselves in an underground apartment in a desperate attempt to wean themselves off heroin.
- Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.
- Drifting from fiction to documentary, Greatest Hits tells the story of Emilio, a man in his fifties who shows up at the family home after fifteen years of absence. His wife and his twenty-eight year old son receive him with bitterness and confusion. After a couple of days they decide to kick him out, only to find out that he has left on his own accord. The son ends up tracking down Emilio and spends a couple of days hanging out with him in his apartment.
- When a chronically ill woman throws a goodbye party under false pretenses, her best friend uncovers the real reason behind her departure - and confronts her in a last-ditch effort to get her to stay.
- The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away.
- French-Canadian adult brothers Mike and Bin still live with their parents in the working class neighborhood of Cabbagetown in Toronto, their parents who largely support them. Mike works a low paying nine to five job hoping to come out the other end with a long term stable career in the trades. Bin is shyster who doesn't really believe in work. What money he earns is in flipping junkers. His M.O. in selling them is to tell his customers of some minor issues with the cars so that they cannot come back to him later with the major issues which he doesn't disclose, he referring them back to the sales pitch and blaming the problems on their improper maintenance. Bin spends most of what he makes at the bar, with his one material extravagance being a several hundred dollar pair of alligator shoes for which he's long been looking. Despite the differences between the two, they will always help the other out of their frequent scrapes in the old adage of blood, at least theirs and their parents, being thicker than water. Their mother informs them that the youngest of their maternal aunts, Danielle, who is only a few years older than the two of them, is coming to live with them temporarily. Danielle has just been deinstitutionalized from her second psychiatric hospital stay. This temporary living situation is until she can get on her feet and demonstrate to social services that she is fit enough to retain custody of her pre-school aged daughter, Ginny. Danielle added to the household has the potential to tear the brothers apart as one wants nothing to do with her, while the other not only sees her as family but has a greater affinity to her emotionally. Being around Mike and Bin also has the potential to throw Danielle's recovery off track in coming between the brothers.
- Dramatizes the mysterious circumstances of three mothers dying in a Toronto hospital shortly after giving birth. When a nurse is charged in connection to the deaths, the other nurses on the ward decide to figure out what happened.
- A young woman bored of life with her parents falls for a slightly older man. When she finds that he doesn't fulfill her needs she falls for a free-spirited friend of his.
- A family tries to schedule the medically assisted death of a loved one.
- Set in the not-too-distant future, when the existing world economy has collapsed, and the new city-states are controlled by computers, many of which require a kind of telepathic linkage with a human counterpart. When the most important of these computers exhibits strange patterns during a crucial operation, its counterpart, a top scientist named Melody, begins having psychic experiences. For a low-budget film, a surprisingly deep exploration of emotions vs. logic and the elusive search for truth.
- A mother deals with bootlegging, violence, stealing, and a social worker.
- A film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.
- Exhausted by her newborn, a first-time mother's home becomes a trap as her husband's sinister intentions emerge.
- The day-to-day life of a Parisian astrologer, who has been residing in the same Montmartre apartment for over 50 years.
- Eugene, a teenager with Down syndrome, spends hours drawings his favourite thing, rainbows. But behind his seemingly colourful world is a reality he can't escape, his mother's illness. Desperate to help her, Eugene soon learns that hanging onto the life he knows means losing more than he ever imagined.
- An unorthodox docu-drama that follows a grandmother's attempt to reconnect with an ex-lover.
- In an attempt to rescue their schizophrenic father, Baig sisters misfortune turns for the worst when they have to rely on an emergency helpline.
- Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until present day.
- Two sisters travel to their father's fishing cabin to spare others from their misery.
- Two Foley artists provide live sound effects to an action scene.
- While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.
- A young girl wears her afro to school on picture day and must deal with the unexpected consequences.
- A short doc following an elderly Jewish woman as she tries bacon for the first time.
- A portrait and tribute to Canadian artist Sylvie Bélanger.
- 'Girls on Top' is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the lives of eight women as they reunite to perform in an award-winning production of Caryl Churchill's 'Top Girls'. A funny and insightful examination of what it means to be a 'top girl', 'Girls on Top' features screen and stage icons including Ann-Marie MacDonald and Megan Follows.
- 1st Graders rebel against fluoride.
- A lonely young painter is haunted by images of a past that remains hidden deep within his soul. As the painful memories of lost love slowly manifests itself through dreams and illusions he is inspired to create his final masterpiece.
- An excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (Sontata in primitive sounds) parades across the screen thanks to a Remington typewriter.
- A short film that explores euthanasia and assisted suicide. The narrative centers on Marie, a woman in her thirties who is struggling with the decision to 'pull the plug' on her sister Magda, who has been in a coma for an extended period. Marie is haunted by Magda, who appears to her in various forms and pleads with Marie to give consent to end her life. In contrast, Marie's mother, Giovanna, considers any intervention that would hasten Magda's death to be tantamount to murder. Interspersed with the story is documentary footage of people answering the question, 'What does it mean to be alive?'projected onto our set. Marie ultimately escapes her torment with the help of a mysterious character who helps her choose for herself and her sister.
- Recalling her mother's painful secret of eating less and remembering her grandmother serving up an appalling swill called ""shipwreck,"" Helen (Kristen Thomson) tries to enjoy a creamy dish at a restaurant. When she finally decides to fight for food against her mother's loud protests, not only is she affirming her appetite, but also her independence as a woman and a lover.